1723 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published in English

English colonies in America

• Samuel Keimer, Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of [. . .] Aquila Rose, a verse memorial memorable for having been set in type by Benjamin Franklin, then an employee of Keimer, a printer in Philadelphia^[1]
• Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies^[2]
• Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather^[1]

Great Britain

• Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem^[3]
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem^[3]
• Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper^[3]
• Matthew Prior:
  • Down-Hall^[3]
  • The Turtle and the Sparrow^[3]
• Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly^[3]
• Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.^[3]

Works published in other languages

• Jean Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French^[4]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 27 – Johann Andreas Cramer (died 1788), German poet, writer and theologian
• November 3 – Samuel Davies (died 1761), English Colonial American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, author and poet^[1]
• November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer^[1]

Deaths

Memorial to Thomas d'Urfey at St James's Church, Piccadilly

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 13 – Sarah Fyge Egerton (born 1670), English poet
• February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey (born 1653), English writer of plays, songs, poetry and jokes
• March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (born 1650), French Protestant poet and historian
• March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)^[5]
• June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (born 1644), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
• September 23 – Jacques Basnage (born 1653), French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes

1. 1 2 3 4 Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
2. ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6. 
4. ↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
5. ↑ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328. 

• "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto